Hi Frank, You can't name a port the same name as your bridge, as a bridge always explicitly has an internal interface with the same name as the bridge, and all ports must have different names. Try naming your GRE port differently, e.g. test2. Regards, -- Romain Lenglet
On Friday, December 31, 2010, Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys: > I just try to create two GRE tunnels between two hosts, the result is I > can't do this. > vswitch complains "could not create iface test: File exists" when > creating second tunnel. > I did set different GRE keys for tunnels. > > I google and get some articles said it's possible to create multiple GRE > tunnels with same src/dst. > I am curious what technical barrier prevents our doing since GRE key is > an natural tag to distinguish different tunnels. > > BTW: when the interface created failed, ovs-vsctl also returns a uuid as > if it succeeds. This is very puzzle, the real result in log is: > " > Dec 30 14:40:06|04201|bridge|INFO|created port test on bridge test > Dec 30 14:40:06|04202|bridge|WARN|could not create iface test: File exists > Dec 30 14:40:06|04203|bridge|WARN|bridge test: port test has no interfaces, > dropping > " > cloud we have more graceful way to report such failure? > > thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
